Being a good person can be a challenge, even at the best of times. But it gets a
whole lot harder when you are literally the daughter of the devil. Or the devil
himself. Even being associated with such a family makes morality a constant struggle.
Hi, I’m Caleb from WickedBinge and today we’re heading to Delaware to
rank Little Demon Characters from Good to Evil.
For this video we’ll be looking at the characters of the FX show, Little Demon,
and ranking them into three tiers; The Good, The Grey, and The Bad to Evil.
We’ll be looking at their actions across the first ten episodes,
the impact they have on the world around them, and also their amount of growth. After all, personal
improvement says a lot about a character – even if their beginnings are less than impressive.
Finally, before we kick things off, we will be discussing the entirety of
the season. So if you haven’t started the show yet, or have fallen behind,
you can consider this your spoiler warning.
With all that said, let’s possess some bodies and hop right in.
First up we have The Good. These are the characters who either ARE good,
or who overcome the most obstacles on their quest to become good.
Taking the Gold Medal of Good is Chrissy.
This is probably the only show where the antichrist can claim a gold medal
of good. But we think she more than earns it for her pure intentions and
constant struggle against the evil within her. And I mean,
who doesn’t have a little bit of evil they have to fight from time to time, right?
Chrissy learns in the pilot episode that she has demonic powers because her father
is literally the devil. Despite not getting along with her mom,
she chooses the path of good – and all without shutting her father out of her
life completely. She wants to learn to use her powers in a way that can benefit others,
and we often see her struggling to strengthen her family ties along the way.
A great example of her dedication is in the second episode; Possession Obsession. When
Chrissy learns she can possess people, she goes overboard trying to resolve conflicts
and lower the amount of bad influence in the entire city. Of course she causes a lot of
damage and creates a mob, but we think this is definitely part of the learning curve.
By the end of the episode she has learned why she maybe shouldn’t be possessing
the living all the time, and that’s not a mistake she continues making. Through each
episode we see Chrissy learn, and grow from even her most egregious missteps.
She causes quite a bit of damage, which would normally be a dealbreaker for the
good tier. But she has more struggles than anyone on the show, and is well on the path
to becoming the best character once she learns how to get her powers in line.
Taking the Silver Medal of Good is Bennigan
He would have absolutely been a shoe-in for Gold Medal of Good were it not for a
certain questionable decision he makes during the final episode.
Bennigan is a good friend. He’s loyal. He’s forgiving. Even when he has to be firm about
his boundaries, he has good reasons for drawing the line. He is also considerate
in explaining he still cares about his friends, even when he is angry with them or needs space.
He’s also learning. When Chrissy falls in with the popular crowd, he is almost manipulated into
harming her chances at any kind of a real social life. But again, having boundaries and his own
strong code of ethics leads him to thwart the devil’s plans to have his daughter canceled.
He overthrows the bad influence just in time to keep things alright between him
and his bestie. He was an even better friend and stronger ally by the end of the episode.
He was unseated for our top position by a single decision,
and that was agreeing to work with the Biggleheim Angels. We hope that this, too,
is something he learns to overcome, because it doesn’t seem like him to betray his friend. Plus,
we all know that Chrissy is going to need all the help she can get.
Taking the Bronze Medal of Good is Darlene
Darlene has her annoying qualities, to be sure. She can be pushy, bad at following directions,
and is proven to enable her late husband even once he passes on.
Her saving grace, however, is that she means well. And we mean, really well. Without much
of a chance to become close to the Feinbergs, she demonstrates a willingness to help out. As
the season progresses, we see her do her best to take care of Laura and become closer to her.
Sometimes she crosses into overbearing territory, yes. But more often than not,
she is just doing her best in the role of a concerned friend. Unlike Laura (and many
of the other characters) she is also able to communicate what she’s trying to do, even when
she messes up. This makes it easy to understand her intentions, and even easier to forgive.
Rounding out the tier we have Laura Feinberg.
In many ways, Laura is like her daughter from a moral perspective. She has access
to questionable magic, an intense knack for self-preservation, and many shortcomings.
There are countless internal demons that hold her back from true greatness,
both in terms of ambition and morality. She has anger management issues, no people skills,
and violent priorities. Her demon hunting is largely something we’d consider good,
though her fondness for torture makes us hesitant.
The area of her biggest strengths and weaknesses alike, however,
all pertain to her daughter. We can tell that Laura wants to be a good mom. She
gives up a lot for Chrissy, first in keeping her safe and then to try and keep her happy.
There are times where her pride and stubbornness all but entirely blind
her maternal instincts. She once led a rat army against her daughter, for instance. There are
also times where she is incredibly selfless, like when she puts herself into a pre-teen
body and learns about how hard it’s been for Chrissy to move around all over the country.
She’s a little rough around the edges, certainly,
but we know that she does her best in a situation that no one would be properly equipped to handle.
Next we have The Grey. These are the characters whose positive impact is
less pronounced, or who struggle against evil with mixed results.
Kicking off this tier is Irwin.
The best word we could use to describe the family’s demon roommate is chaotic.
While he seems to contribute more help than harm in the Feinman household,
his dialogue leads us to believe he’s not exactly happy about it.
We’re interested to see what becomes of his character
should he be given more screen time in the second season.
Following him is another secondary character; Snake with Arms
Again, we don’t get to see too much of him. Normally, being one of Satan’s henchmen would
put someone into the bad tier. But this little guy often seems to serve as a sort of conscience
for the devil, reigning in his bad behavior and pushing him toward being a better father.
This is perhaps most prominent when he is serving as a driver for a bachelor party,
and judges the devil into cutting ties with some of his most toxic friends.
Since the devil needs that voice of reason more than most,
we think it was more than enough to bring this serpent high up into the grey tier.
Then we have the Sea Hag.
The Sea Hag is definitely not perfect. As a matter of fact,
she has confessed to eating people, and seems generally alright with murder.
But.
In terms of actual contributions to the show, the Sea Hag doesn’t seem to be much
of a hag at all. She is sociable, strong, and an incredibly selfless woman. She takes Laura
in under her wing (or fin, rather) during one of her lowest moments. She then teaches
the distraught mother how to find her own sense of self, and to make sure she is being valued.
Their relationship may have started as just a fling,
but it led to positive improvement and growth for both of the women.
Following her is Jimmy
Again, Jimmy is not perfect.
He is polite, agreeable, and seems to be a helpful man. Darlene is charmed by
him and he’s ready to help Laura, who has admitted openly to torturing him.
With all these traits it seems like he could have been a good addition to our
Good Tier. He likely would have made it, were it not for the fact that Jimmy is a
literal ego monster. This is something Darlene must find out the hard way,
after complimenting him brings out an entirely new side of the creature.
Thankfully Laura knows just how to slice through a man’s ego,
and Jimmy returns to normal. Knowing what a single compliment can do for him though…
it definitely calls his motives for being a “nice guy” into question.
Rounding out the tier are Satan’s Children.
No, no. We’re not talking about Chrissy. We’re talking about all her many, many half siblings.
In the final episode of the season we see that The Devil’s other children have all moved to a
plane of existence together where they live peacefully in a sort of commune. They don’t
use their powers for violence and their one rule is that they shall never kill.
At first it seems like the group is all about overcoming
struggles and learning to accept themselves the way that they are.
It really is such a shame that this spirit of acceptance cannot extend to Chrissy during
the times she struggles to control her powers. They bring her into the fold, only to judge her
harshly when she accidentally slays one of their enemies. Their shunning of her after an honest
mistake was something that was bound to leave a terrible scar in the impressionable young woman.
Next we have the Bad to Evil. These are the characters who either have
a lot to make up for, or absolutely no intention of redeeming themselves.
Kicking off this tier is none other than The Devil himself.
While this may come as a surprise to you, we think there are plenty of characters worse
than the devil. Is he a good person? No. A good father? Also, not really.
It’s hard to blame him for being absent in most of Chrissy’s life when her mother went
to such great lengths to hide her existence. But he’s had plenty of
other children who were also abandoned and neglected. His interest in Chrissy
often seems to only extend to her ability to help him bring about Dawnus Maximus.
We also know from context clues that he is guilty of plenty of terrible,
terrible crimes. Trapping souls in a hole, murdering, torturing, etc. For all these reasons,
as well as the recurring sin of trying to corrupt his daughter, we have to put him in the bad tier.
However.
Considering where he starts as the father of all evil, we don’t think there is any character,
including his daughter, who comes quite as far. Being a father to her teaches him empathy that
he didn’t have before. It makes him cut back on the evil that he inflicts on the world,
and teaches him to be compassionate toward the other creatures in his care.
He’s even learning to be a better dad,
as was proven when he teamed up with Laura to help rescue Chrissy.
Following him is Amanda
We’re probably going to get a lot of heat for putting the
PTA Mom on a list where we ranked her as more evil than the actual,
literal devil. But we stand by our decision. In the context of the show, Amanda is much worse.
Whereas Satan is capable of learning things and improving, Amanda’s short arc on the show sees
her devolve from a helpful parent into a jealous monster. Layer after layer of imperfection gets
peeled away as we learn that she is hiding a lot of bitterness beneath her perfect exterior.
Laura fights actual literal demons everyday. But all it takes to unravel
Amanda’s entire spirit is… well, a little competition. It really
put all her “good” and overbearing deeds into perspective, didn’t it?
Next is Queen Inichoochiama
She’s a demon, and that honestly might be enough in a show where so many of the other
traditionally evil characters get redemption arcs. She runs a reality show (another point
against her) where contestants fight wave after wave of terrifying creatures to the death.
If this isn’t enough information for you, how about the fact that she tricks the devil,
exposing his weakness and trying to kill him in front of his own daughter?
Part of this is on Satan for thinking that a killing-based reality show was
good father daughter bonding time. But still, this was a pretty heartless move
on the queen’s part. It was also one of the points where we feel worst for Chrissy. It
hurts to see her punished for the sins of her father when she tries so hard to do better.
Taking the Bronze Medal of Evil are the Biggleheim Angels
We want to give them the benefit of the doubt. We’re humans after all,
and we’ve been conditioned to think of angels as good things. (No doubt
this is how they got Bennigan swayed to their cause in the first place.)
When only taking into account what we see on the show, however,
we are not so convinced that these guys are any better than demons.
As you can tell by our ranking of them, they may actually be worse.
They’re also collecting souls for Biggleheim, which is depicted by both the devil,
and the entire show as a rather grim afterlife. It’s filled with con-artists,
traps, and strange imaginings of an eternity that no one would really
want to be condemned to. The angels seem more excited by the entertainment they
provide there than governing the trusting spirits roaming around.
They’re also not afraid to play dirty. It’s only by stealing souls from The Devil in the
first place that they’re able to lure him and his daughter to Biggleheim. Then they turn Chrissy’s
best friend against her, which we don’t doubt will cause more harm than good in the world.
We keep saying it, but that girl needs every
ounce of help she can get, lest she turn to her father’s nature and cause Dawnus Maximus
Taking the Silver Medal of Evil Are Arabella & The Popular Girls
Much like with Amanda before them, we were impressed by just how evil
humanity can be on this show. But then again, that’s probably the point.
Arabella is the cool girl at school. She’s all about call-out culture, holding creeps
accountable, and getting rid of fast fashion. None of these sound too bad to begin with.
But then we get to see how quick Arabella is to use Chrissy, and then drop her when
she fails to come through on a plan. Though the popular girls may not actually be doing
blood sacrifices to summon the school ghost, they are getting wrapped up in the insanity of school
politics. Scratch that, they’re actually forming the insanity of school politics.
They’re ready to shun Chrissy when her powers don’t work,
and ready to shun her when she uses those same powers to save them. The appearance
of looking good and wholesome is clearly more important to them than actually being decent.
None of their crimes are terrible, yet, but they’re the show’s innocent embodiment
of terrible things like hypocrisy, which pave the way to greater evils.
And speaking of greater evils…
The Gold Medal of Evil goes to Unshaven Man
He’s so evil they didn’t even name him.
This mercenary is in a rather unfortunate accident early in the season, for which he blames Chrissy.
Part of his body was shot off, and he just can’t seem to let go. In subsequent episode epilogues
we see him blame her as he gets closer and closer to taking his revenge on a child. (We also see him
acknowledge his faults before continuing a path of misogyny, narcissism, and irrational violence.)
Though he proves not to be much of a match against Chrissy’s half siblings,
the rage that compels him to stalk her and almost kill her is an
excellent representation of how easily humanity is corrupted in this world.
And that’s been it! Our picks for the best and worst characters in Little Demon. Who
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